Age of Rebirth

The battle of Hongshuihe was undoubtedly a devastating blow to Masahiro Honma. More than 9 soldiers were concentrated on the south bank, and they were attacked by overwhelming artillery fire without even seeing their opponents. The strange cannons flying all over the sky destroyed his will even more.

What did Masaharu Honma see?There are corpses of soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army everywhere, layers and piles, covering the land on the south bank of the Hongshui River. If it is a normal battlefield, he can still bear it. A living person, with a flash of flame, will Turned into flying ash before his eyes, the impact of that moment challenged his nerves.

Masaharu Honma herself was quite lucky. With the rest of the defeated soldiers, she retreated to Binyang before she dared to stop and catch her breath. Two heavy artillery brigades, several artillery regiments, and more than 4 casualties , This price is too high. The Third Army and Fourth Army of the Southern Expeditionary Army suffered a devastating blow. This kind of blow was completely psychological. When the overwhelming rockets flew in, all Japanese officers Both soldiers and soldiers have the feeling that they can't resist, they can't escape, they can only accept the arrangement of fate by resignation and help.

Someone must be responsible for such a loss. Masaharu Honma realized that his time in the Imperial Army was at an end. If there hadn’t been this disastrous defeat by the Hongshui River, even if he had violated the order of the dispatched army’s headquarters, as long as he could To wipe out the remnants of the Guangxi Army, he has the confidence to eliminate all factors that are not good for him. It doesn't matter if he violates the order, as long as he wins the battle.

But now, because of an order of his own, all the artillery was lost, and more than 4 imperial soldiers died. Masaharu Honma asked himself, with his current qualifications and background, he could not bear the monstrous anger of the dispatched army headquarters and base camp.After arriving at the guests, Masaharu Honma locked herself in the room and never came out again. [

The whole night, when Masaharu Honma came out of the house, she was already like a walking dead, with gray hair overnight.The action of the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army is still very fast, a senior staff officer of the general headquarters.At the risk of a plane crash, they took a small transport plane and landed in an open space outside Binbin Town. Randomly, there were also four heavily armed military police.

Southern Expeditionary Army General Command.The treatment of Masaharu Honma was not very harsh and severe. Masaharu Honma was dismissed as the commander of the Third Army and the commander of the Nanning Campaign, and was escorted back to the mainland for trial. The Third Army and the Fourth Army merged to form the Nanning Front Army.The commander was served by Kenji Iijima, the former commander of the Fourth Army.

The moment when the senior staff officer of the General Headquarters read out the order of the commander-in-chief, General Hisashi Terauchi, in front of all the senior officers of the Third Army and the Fourth Army, the moment Masaharu Homma was handcuffed by the military police and escorted into the plane.Everyone knew that Masaharu Honma's military career was over, and what awaited him was an unknown ending. His third army designation was also cancelled. For a Japanese imperial army, the number was cancelled.is the greatest shame.

On that day, many officers of the former Third Army.He chose to commit suicide by caesarean section, according to gossip from the newly formed Nanning Front Army.Before these officers who committed suicide, before they died, they all cried bitterly and scolded Masaharu Honma. In those few days, the guests burned people all day long, making a beautiful town in southern Guangxi stinky and stinky. dozens of miles away.

The remnants of the Third Army and the Fourth Army of the Japanese Army, after staying with the guests for a few days, received an order from the General Headquarters of the dispatched army to return to Nanning for a short rest and replenishment, and prepare to participate in the attack on Guizhou. The large-scale offensive intended to launch a large-scale attack on Northeast Guangxi failed in this way, and it cost the lives of more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers and the future of a lieutenant general commander.

This move also means that the Japanese army fixed their defense lines around Nanning, from Binyang in the north to Beibu Gulf in the south, and the crisis that was pressing on Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi was completely resolved through a bombardment by the Hongshui River. Yes, on the night when the Battle of Hongshuihe ended, Chang Feng, the chief of staff of the independent division and the chief of staff of the directly subordinate corps, returned to the station after attending the banquet held by Bai Chongxi, and received a telegram from the division commander Tang Qiuli.

At this moment, Chang Feng's head is still a little dizzy. Even though he drank a lot of wine, the enthusiasm of the officers of the Gui Army headed by Bai Chongxi can melt the iron man, and all the praises are dedicated to the officers of the regiment directly under him , especially Chang Feng himself, has become the focus of everyone's attention, and there is more awe in his gaze.

Chang Feng asked the guards to bring a large basin of cold water, and plunged his head into the cold water happily. His dizzy head regained consciousness a little. Thinking of the banquet, he couldn't help being afraid for a while. If it weren't for the brigade commanders , I withstood most of the toasts for myself, and I am afraid that I will be unconscious for two or three days based on my drinking capacity.

After taking the telegram and seeing it at the first glance, Chang Feng showed a dumbfounding expression, "Chief of Staff, did you enjoy the battle of Hongshuihe? I think Bai Chongxi's banquet must be extremely rich. Your Excellency the Chief of Staff didn't take advantage of it." Jiuxing, give Bai Chongxi a few Thunderbolt rockets? The Japanese army is defeated this time, and Northeast Guizhou is in trouble, and the corps directly under it will return to Liuzhou immediately. In the northeastern area of ​​Guangxi, pay attention to the upcoming war in Guizhou."

Chang Feng was dumbfounded by the teacher's telegram. He had been with Tang Qiuli for several years, and it was the first time he saw him joking with himself in the telegram. Can you not be happy? As the first main field corps of the independent division, the directly subordinate corps has always given priority to the supply of equipment. The new weapons produced by the Dingbian Arsenal are first equipped in the brigades of the directly subordinate corps, and then other field corps .

Take this Hongshuihe artillery battle as an example. There are ten field brigades directly under the Corps, and each brigade is equipped with a Thunder Rocket Battalion. Those are eighteen 32-hole rocket artillery vehicles. Just one salvo by one battalion is 570 six There are ten such rocket artillery battalions, and one volley is more than 5000 high-explosive rockets. At that time, even Chang Feng himself felt his scalp tingling, and he was stunned for a long time, let alone the officers of the Guangxi Army. , the expression is like seeing a ghost.

There are also four artillery brigades directly under the corps, with more than 1000 large-caliber artillery pieces, which forcibly turned the area of ​​seven or eight kilometers south of the Hongshui River upside down. Open fire, the casualties of the directly subordinate corps were extremely slight. Three artillery pieces were lost and more than a dozen people were killed or injured. Compared with the casualties of the Japanese army, they were simply negligible.

According to the battle plan reported by Chang Feng, he was still in an ambush on the north bank of the Hongshui River. More than 600 tanks from the two tank brigades and more than 6 soldiers from the four brigades were hiding in the dense jungle on the north bank. Once the Japanese army forcibly crossed the Hongshui River regardless of casualties, the tanks and infantry in ambush came to counter-attack when they just landed on the north bank. The morale of the Japanese collapsed, retreating hundreds of miles, which made Chang Feng depressed for a while.

However, Chang Feng's proposal to take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army's retreat to attack all the corps directly under the Hongshui River to wipe out all the Japanese troops in Guangxi was rejected by the division commander, which made him very upset. I don't understand. After pondering for a long time, I can't see the purpose and intention of the division commander. From this telegram, Chang Feng analyzed some tricks. Could it be that the front line of Guizhou is the key direction of the Japanese army's next attack?

The next day, Bai Chongxi came to the door again, Chang Feng let him into the living room, and chatted for a while, Chang Feng saw that Bai Chongxi was absent-minded, as if he had nothing to say, so he asked directly: "Commander Bai, what do you want to say? But let’s talk about it, are we allies with the Gui army?” Chang Feng probably figured it out, Bai Chongxi came to the door early in the morning, it wasn’t weapons and medicine, he looked greedy, and wanted to get some autumn wind here.

The old Bai Chongxi blushed, as if he had made up his mind, and said: "Chief of Staff, then Bai has something to say. You also know that our Guangxi army suffered heavy losses in the battle of Nanning. At that time, most of the soldiers lost their weapons, especially heavy weapons. They were almost completely lost. The troops needed to recover, and it was impossible without equipment. Bai had an unfeeling request. During the battle of Hongshuihe, Whether the weapons and equipment left by the Japanese army on the south bank can be cleaned up by our Guangxi army, of course, if your army does not agree, it is also reasonable."

Chang Feng could spit out a sip of tea that he drank into his mouth. Dare he, Bai Chongxi came to visit early in the morning, blushing and embarrassed in every possible way, just for the trophies on the south bank of the Hongshui River. Forgot, not to mention the main field corps of the independent division, even the second-line corps, Japanese weapons have become junk in the warehouse, and the troop equipment, Bai Chongxi is like a treasure.

Chang Feng looked at Bai Chongxi with the eyes of a billionaire looking at a beggar, and said in a concealed manner: "Commander Bai, our department did not clean up the battlefield at all. If your army is interested, you can do whatever you want. Everything, our army Don't even want a piece of money, and give it all to your army, how about it?"

Bai Chongxi didn't expect Chang Feng to be so easy to talk, but he was stunned for a short time. Cleaning the battlefield is the right of the victor. There are more than 4 people, and the equipment left over is not a small amount. In a word, they all want it. It's not eye-catching, what else can Bai Chongxi say, he can only lament that Tang Qiuli's army is really rich and rich. [

After hastily thanking him, Bai Chongxi couldn't stay still for a moment, and left immediately. Is there anything more exciting than the equipment of more than 4 people?The equipment of the Japanese soldiers was several times better than that of the Gui army. Looking at Bai Chongxi's excited back, Chang Fengnai shook his head, feeling somewhat sympathetic to this big man of the Gui family.

The cannon and the terrifying rocket launcher bombed for more than an hour, and there were still a few intact pieces of equipment left, and there were almost the same parts everywhere. I am afraid that Bai Chongxi would be disappointed.

(To be continued)